To be entirely honest I think I would trust Petey with those long guns more than Chinook. It's not that I think Chinook isn't trustworthy. So much as the fact that Petey has a significantly better track record.

Honestly I don't think the Kssthrata would follow the naming conventions of the species they were locked in genocidal war with for centuries.

Really I'm not sure who would be negotiating with the Ob'enn like that. It's a question of what do the Ob'enn have that some one else would want. Normally this would include not being crushed under the Ob'enn war fleet, but Petey seems to have them locked down well enough that that isn't a concern. And other than that the only thing the Ob'enn seem to have is an extravagant amount of PTUs, and they seem too homicidal to sell their strategic supplies.

To be entirely honest I think I would trust Petey with those long guns more than Chinook. It's not that I think Chinook isn't trustworthy. So much as the fact that Petey has a significantly better track record.

Petey, who genocided several fleets worth of her creator via several methods including suicide, or Chinook, who nonfatally injured one of her previous allies and destroyed a hostile force trying to kill her?

I figured the other party to be the Kssthrata.I know, they managed to escape, en mass, to another planet, but that was still the impression I had.

I don't think they'd want to negotiate, seeing as, as far as the O'benn are concerned, they're dead as their homeworld was nuked into glass. Given that the O'benn are contained within their region of space by Petey, it seems like the Kssthrata would not wish to correct the record and would be best served by allowing the O'benn to continue to believe they are dead.

I figured the other party to be the Kssthrata.I know, they managed to escape, en mass, to another planet, but that was still the impression I had.

I don't think they'd want to negotiate, seeing as, as far as the O'benn are concerned, they're dead as their homeworld was nuked into glass. Given that the O'benn are contained within their region of space by Petey, it seems like the Kssthrata would not wish to correct the record and would be best served by allowing the O'benn to continue to believe they are dead.

The O'Benn do not believe they are dead. If you read the notes under the strips, the Kssthrata, or one of their number, published their exploit to a military periodical.

To be entirely honest I think I would trust Petey with those long guns more than Chinook. It's not that I think Chinook isn't trustworthy. So much as the fact that Petey has a significantly better track record.

Petey, who genocided several fleets worth of her creator via several methods including suicide, or Chinook, who nonfatally injured one of her previous allies and destroyed a hostile force trying to kill her?

As far as I remember, Petey went to great lengths to preserve the lives of the people on those fleets he "genocided." His track record stands better.